Thestandard of
papers in General English and General Studies will be suchas may be
expected of a graduate of an Indian University.

Thestandard of papers in the other subjects will be
that of the Master'sdegree examination of an Indian University in the
relevant disciplines.The candidates will be expected to illustrate
theory by facts, and toanalyse problems with the help of
theory.

They will be expected to be
particularly conversant with Indian problems in the field of
Economic/Statistics.

General
English

Candidateswill be required to write an essay in
English. Other questions will bedesigned to test their understanding of
English and workmanlike use ofwords. Passages will usually be set for
summary or precis.

General
Studies

GeneralKnowledge including knowledge of current
events and of such matters ofevery day observation and experience in
their scientific aspects as maybe expected of an educated person who
has not made a special study ofany scientific subject.

The paper willalso include questions on Indian
Polity including the political systemand the Constitution of India,
History of India and Geography of anature which the candidate should be
able to answer without specialstudy.

WelfareEconomics - inter-personal comparison and
aggregation problem,divergence between social and private welfare,
compensation principle,Pareto optimality, Social choice and other
recent schools, includingCoase and
Sen.

Concept
ofnational income and social accounting - measurement of national
income- Inter-relationship between three measures of national income in
thepresence of the Government sector and international
transactions.Measuring Economic Welfare - socio-economic indicators
approach: PQLIand H.D. Index.

Conceptof
economic growth and development and their measurement -Characteristics
of less developed countries (LDCs) and obstacles totheir development -
growth, poverty and income distribution - Theoriesof growth: Classicial
Approach: Adam Smith, Marx and Schumpeter -Neo-classical Approach:
Robinson, Solow, Kaldor and Harrod-Domar -Theories of Economic
Development: Rostow, Rosenstein-Rodan, Nurkse,Hirschman, Leibenstein
and Arthur Lewis, Amin and Frank (Dependencyschool); respective role of
the State and the market.

Moneyand Banking: its functions and value-quantity
Theory of Money: CashTransaction Approach and the Cash Balances
Approach, Friedman'sRestatement of the Quantity Theory of Money - the
instruments ofmonetary control - the neutrality of money - the money
multiplier.

Historyof development
and planning - alternative development strategies - goalof self
reliance based on import substitution and the post-1991globalisation
strategies based on stabilisation and structuraladjustment
packages.

Poverty,Unemployment and Human Development during
plan period - Appraisal ofGovernment measures - India's human
development record in
globalperspective.

Agricultureand Rural Development: Strategies
including those relating totechnologies and institutions: land
relations and land reforms, ruralcredit, modern farm inputs and
marketing - price policy and subsidies;commercialisation and
diversification. Rural development programmesincluding poverty
alleviation programmes: development of economic andsocial
infrastructure.

India'sexperience with Urbanisation and Migration -
Different types ofmigratory flows and their impact on the economies of
their origin anddestination, the process of growth of urban
settlements: urbanstrategies.

StatisticalQuality Control: Control Charts for
variable and attributes. AcceptanceSampling by attributes-Single,
double, multiple and sequential Samplingplans; Concepts of AOQL and
ATI; Acceptance Sampling by variables-useof Dodge-Romig and other
tables.

Elementsof
linear programming. Simplex procedure. Pirnciple of duality.Transport
and assignment problems. Single and multi-period inventorycontrol
models. ABC analysis. General simulation problems. Replacemnetmodels
for items that fail and or items that deteriorate.

(iii) Demography and Vital
Statistics

Thelife
table, its constitution and properties. Makehams and Gompertzcurves.
National life tables. UN model life tables. Abridged lifetables. Stable
and stationary populations. Different birth rates. Totalfertility rate.
Gross and net reproduction rates. Different mortalityrates.
Standardised death rate. Internal and international migration:net
migration.

International
andpostcensal estimates. Projection method including logistic
curvefitting. Decennial population census in India.